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News & periodicals
News @ Global Landscapes Forum
Information resources & maps
Connectivity @ ArcGIS StoryMaps
· A key information nexus for connectivity science.
· "GIS tools for connectivity, corridor, or habitat modeling"
Endangered Landscapes Programme
Free Passage: Reestablishing North America's Wildlife Corridors
Globescapes @ Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC)
Landscape Measure Resource Center (LMRC)
· “...designed to help manage areas where interests in protecting biodiversity, producing food, and
supporting rural livelihoods converge. The Landscape Measures approach recognizes producers
of crops, livestock, fish, and forest resources as stewards of ecosystems and biodiversity.”
· “...an interactive platform where landowners and professionals from any agency, organization or
industry can share technical information, host GIS mapping products and a variety of decision-support
tools, view and download online learning materials, find out about partnership activities and newly
funded projects, and identify technical experts who are available to provide assistance.”
Resilient & Connected Landscapes @ TNC's Conservation Gateway
Indicators
Catchment Based Approach (CaBA)
Protected Area Representativeness and Connectedness (PARC-Connectedness)
Protected Connected (Protconn) Index
Relative Magnitude of Fragmentation
Institutions ~ Coalitions, networks & partnerships
Coalition for Wildlife Corridors [India]
Connectivity Policy Coalition (CPC) [USA]
· Hosted by Wildlands Network
Global Partnership on Ecological Connectivity (GPEC)
· Partnership design document @ CMS [pdf]
Network for Landscape Conservation
· “...a joint initiative between WWF, CLLC, CCSG, and CMS that aims to maintain or increase
ecological connectivity of landscapes, ensuring viable wildlife populations, ecosystem
services, resilience to climate change, and human well-being.”
Institutions ~ Science & research
Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Endangered Landscapes Programme
Center for Landscape Conservation Planning @ University of Florida
· “ ...the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement. The Forum takes a holistic
approach to create sustainable landscapes that are productive, prosperous, equitable and
resilient and considers five cohesive themes of food and livelihoods, landscape restoration,
rights, finance and measuring progress. It is led by the Center for International Forestry Research
(CIFOR), in collaboration with its co-founders UNEP and the World Bank and Charter Members.”
· "We are now the world’s largest science-led platform on sustainable land use. To date, we have
connected 3,000 organizations and 25,000 people through our gatherings in Warsaw, Lima,
London, Paris, Marrakech and Jakarta - with 32 million others online.”
International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE)
Landscape Biodiversity Lab @ Montana State University
U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network
Institutions ~ NGOs
Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC)
Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group (CCSG)
· Key international working group on connectivity.
· CCSG's work is mostly posted at the Conservation Corridor website.
Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
Futurescapes [UK]
· "...the only nature conservation group who's sole mission is the direct funding of park
protection systems for saving our most important and endangered world heritage and
national parks in developing countries."
Landscape Conservation @ NAASF & USDA-Northeastern Area
Landscape Conservation Cooperative Network [USA, with North American links]
· “Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) were established to provide science capacity
and technical expertise for meeting shared natural and cultural resource priorities. Today, the
network of 22 LCCs are changing how we think about, plan, and act upon collaborative
conservation issues in a way that goes beyond boundaries to help the places we love and the
natural and cultural resources our communities depend on thrive for generations to come."
· “To provide observations and information on the emerging fields of landscape scale conservation,
heritage preservation, and sustainable community development."
· "...an international coalition of scientists, conservationists, nonprofits, and public officials
defending nature at the scale she needs to continue to function for the benefit of all life."
Network for Landscape Conservation
Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition
· Flourishing Landscapes program
· "...a regional vision that unites and inspires people across New England working to conserve
New England’s natural heritage and to craft a sustainable future.
· Originally The Wildlands Project (TWP), this was the modern environmental era's first "large
landscape conservation" initiative.
Wildlife Trusts [UK]
“Three conditions”
Three Global Conditions for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use
Wilderness
Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance [US]
· “Wilderness.net is a website formed in 1996 through a collaborative partnership between the
W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation's Wilderness Institute at The University of
Montana, the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center and the Aldo Leopold
Wilderness Research Institute. The latter two partners are the wilderness training and research
arms of the Federal government, respectively. The program's day-to-day activities are overseen
by a working group and steering committee with additional oversight provided by the federal
interagency National Wilderness Steering Committee and Wilderness Policy Council. The
website educates hundreds of thousands of visitors annually about the benefits of wilderness
and stewardship of wilderness under the Wilderness Act.”
Wilderness Information Network Home Page [US]
Wilderness Research Center @ University of Idaho
Man and the Biosphere
International Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities (ICSRC)
Man and the Biosphere @ USNPS History eLibrary
Man and the Biopshere (MAB) Programme
World Network of Biosphere Reserves
Select readings on large landscape conservation
Large landscape conservation: A strategic framework for policy and action
· 2010, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy
Sustaining large landscape conservation partnerships
· Spillane, Audrey L., and Wilson, Ian G. 2012, Sonoran Institute.
USNPS. Scaling up: Collaborative approaches to large landscape Conservation.
Landscape-scale conservation [Wikipedia]
Future of Landscape Scale Conservation in Europe (2016)
Hands Across Borders 2016 conference
Select videos on connectivity & climate change
· How does climate change affect biodiversity?
· Can plants and animals adapt to a changing climate?
· This is the largest corridor experiment in the world
· Habitat Connectivity: Assessing Threats and IDing Conservation Actions
· Introduction to the Staying Connected Initiative
Joe Beletti-Naccato of Brandeis Universitty contributed to this page in 2019.
Landscape connectivity & corridors
Contents of this page:
· News & periodicals
· Information resources & maps
· Indicators
· Institutions
~ Coalitions, networks & partnerships
~ Science & research institutions
~ NGOs
· Select readings on landscape conservation
· Selected videos on connectivity & climate change
Subpage:
Also see:
· Rewilding & restoration ecology
~ More on connectivity can be found on biome-specific pages
(forests, mountains, wetlands, coral reefs, etc.).
